The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
